Research
Fair allocation and pricing in congestion games
This project focuses on the studying the effecincy-fairness tradeoff intrinsic to the congestion games model focusing on the problem of fair traffic assignement and congestion pricing. We propose rebust fairness metrics in such models and study algorithms for achieving fair traffic assignements that can be enforeced through fair tolls.

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Mixed-autonomy traffic optimization
This project aims to reduce instabilities ("stop-and-go" waves) in mixed-autonomy traffic flow by controlling a small proportion of autonomouse vehicles (AVs). We developed a hirarical control archetecture based on local and global traffic state. The developed controller was deployed at a large scale in a 100-vehicle field experiment conducted on the I-24 highway during the morning rush hour. Overall, our results show that a small proportion of well-controlled AVs is enough to significantly improve traffic flow and fuel efficiency for all drivers on the road.

[Website] [Paper-Optimal control] [Paper-MegaVenderTest] [Paper-MegaVenderTest] [Paper-Speed planner]

Change Point Detection
Detection of abrupt changes in time series data is an important subject of study in applied statistics that covers many real-life applications, from medical diagnosis to fraud detection. In this project, we develop, theoretically analyze, and empirically evaluate an online algorithm for change point detection (CPD) in multivariate time series based on multivariate singular spectrum analysis.

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Baysian Theory of Mind: Modelling Human Mistakes
Humans have an innate ability to reason about the goals of others in their environment by observing their behavior. Remarkably, we, as humans, can do so even in the presence of mistakes or failures to achieve such goals. In this project, we explore the question of how to allow machines to have similar capabilities of reasoning about the mistakes of other agents in their environments. To do so, we model agents and their environments as generative processes that account for sub-optimality at three levels of decision-making: goal confusion with semantically similar goals, errors in planning, and mistakes in taking actions.

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Publications


2025
Kernel-based planning and imitation learning control for flow smoothing in mixed autonomy traffic
Zhe Fu, Arwa Alanqary, Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Alexandre M Bayen
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

2024
Improving Social Cost in Traffic Routing with Bounded Regret via Second-Best Tolls
Arwa Alanqary, Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Samitha Samaranayake, Alexandre M Bayen
63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

2023
Optimal Control of Autonomous Vehicles for Flow Smoothing in Mixed Autonomy Traffic
Arwa Alanqary, Xiaoqian Gong, Alexander Keimer, Benjamin Seibold, Benedetto Piccoli, Alexandre Bayen
62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

2021
Change Point Detection via Multivariate Singular Spectrum Analysis
Arwa Alanqary, Abdullah Alomar, Devavrat Shah
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 34

2021
Modeling the Mistakes of Boundedly Rational Agents Within a Bayesian Theory of Mind
Arwa Alanqary, Gloria Z. Lin, Joie Le, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Vikash Mansinghka, Joshua Tenenbaum
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci)
ICRA: Social Intelligence in Humans and Robots Workshop

2019
An Adaptive Algorithm for Time-series Imputation Using Matrix Estimation Methods.
Abdullah Alomar, Arwa Alanqary, Mansour Alsaleh, Devavrat Shah
NBER-NSF Time Series Conference

2018
Preliminary Results on Maximum Mean Discrepancy Approach for Seizure Detection.
Boumediene Hamzi, Turky N Alotaiby, Saleh Alshebeili, Arwa AlAnqary.
20th International Conference on Health Informatics and Health Information Technology